On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Panu Matilainen wrote: >> The draft release notes are at http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.0 > > 1. This change: > | Packages with no files can now omit the %files section and still have > | packages generated. > is going to make it a PITA to conditionalize the building of subpackages, > and it's going to break several existing KDE specfiles very badly (and with > no warning!): RPM will silently generate empty subpackages where none is > wanted. > > More precisely, when we wanted to conditionalize or comment out the creation > of a subpackage (e.g. in kde-l10n for languages which are currently not > available), what we did so far was to %if out only the %files section for > the subpackage, not %package or things like %post, and this would reliably > omit the subpackage. Now we'll have to %if out ALL sections referring to the > subpackage: %package to prevent the subpackage from being built, and all > other sections referring to it because they'll error out if the %package is > not there. This change can be reconsidered. > > 2. I presume this: > | Unknown dependency qualifiers are now always treated as errors and abort > | build > also includes Requires(hint), or is that finally used now? The specfiles > maintained or comaintained by Rex Dieter (and they're many!) have > Requires(hint) in many places. If this is really an error now, then that > change is breaking all of KDE and its dependencies and several other > packages in Fedora. ...but this I've no sympathy for. You're relying on a stupid, longstanding bug on rpm that makes it accept Requires(randomjunk) in some situations: in older versions Requires(pre,junk) and Requires(junk) falls through silently in older versions but eg Requires(junk,pre) - and Requires(hint,pre) does give an error. - Panu - -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
